Here are the World’s Top 40 most hacked passwords that you should avoid like plague

With cyber-attacks becoming rampant across the globe by day, millions of people have been found to be still using ‘easy-to-guess’ passwords such as 123456 for their online accounts such as Facebook, Online banking, Emails and Twitter.

The report found ‘123456’ was the most used, ahead of 123456789 and qwerty, the series of letters which appear in a line on a computer keyboard.

The report, further reveals that hundreds of thousands of people used common names, and their favourite Premier League football teams as their password. ‘Liverpool’ was the most common Premier League Football team used as password.

“We understand that cyber security can feel daunting to a lot of people, but the National Cyber Security Centre has published lots of easily applicable advice to make you much less vulnerable,” Dr Ian Levy, NCSC’s Technical Director says.

He adds: “Using hard-to-guess passwords is a strong first step and we recommend combining three random but memorable words. Be creative and use words memorable to you, so people can’t guess your password.”

Below is a list of ‘easy-to-guess’ passwords that were found to be in use by millions of people across the globe.